He always expects Titania to comply with what he wants and never wants her to argue with him. When he doesn’t get his way with her‚ his lust for control‚ causes him to lash out in immature behaviors. When Titania refuses to comply with his wishes in their dispute over the Indian boy‚ Oberon is unable to accept his wife’s disobedience‚ and as a result intoxicates her
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Robin Goodfellow‚ a puck‚ meets a fairy who serves Queen Titania. He tells the fairy that his King Oberon is in the woods‚ and that Titania should avoid Oberon because they will quarrel again. However‚ Titania and Oberon soon arrive and begin arguing about a young boy Titania has stolen and is caring for. Oberon demands that she give him the boy‚ but she refuses. Oberon decides to play a trick on Titania and put some pansy juice on her eyes. The magical juice will make her
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Shakespeare’s most popular plays or stories. The main characters of this story are Oberon‚ Titania‚ Hermia‚ Lysander‚ Demetrius and Helena. This story deals with marriage‚ family‚ elope and comedy. Hermia elopes with her lover Lysander to get married and Demetrius who loves Hermia follows them into while Helena‚ Hermia’s friend and Demetrius’ lover‚ follows Demetrius into the forest. Meanwhile‚ Oberon and Titania‚ king and queen of the fairies in the forest‚ have an argument which causes tension between
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one of the Athenian lovers‚ is relevant in this story because of the difficulties in all of the relationships. Lysander and his lover Hermia‚ Theseus‚ the king of Athens‚ and his lover Hippolyta‚ and lastly‚ Oberon‚ the fairy king‚ and his wife Titania‚ all travel a bumpy road on the path to true love. Lysander and Hermia is a prime example of young love. The only problem with this is that Hermia’s dad‚ Egeus‚ will not allow her to marry Lysander but in fact wishes her to marry another boy‚ Demetrius
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creates a lot of chaos in the play and is known to be the reason behind all problems. Many people are known to be tricksters just to get their way. Oberon and his wife‚ Titania do not have a healthy relationship which causes Oberon to behave badly. This is proven when Oberon suggest‚ "Having once this juice‚ I’ll watch Titania‚ when she is asleep‚ and drop the liquor of it in her eyes. The next thing she‚ waking‚ looks upon‚ be it on lion‚ bear‚ or wolf‚ or bull‚ on a meddling monkey‚ or on a busy
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fairy Queen falls in love with an ass‚ best friends become bitter enemies‚ and a haphazard love triangle suddenly sorts itself out. The first display of an indocile love is when the fairy queen‚ Titania‚ falls in love with Bottom‚ a man who is given the head of a donkey by the trickster Puck. Titania spends most of act III doting on
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Titania depicts Oberon as a romantic‚ who is not loyal to her. She says‚ “I know when thou hast stolen away from Fairyland...sat all day playing on pipes of corn and versing love to amorous Phillida...your business mistress and your warrior love‚ to Theseus must be wedded‚” (2.1.66-75). Oberon wishes to have the Indian boy for himself. Titania refuses to give the Indian boy up because she is raising him for her friend who
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the jester to the King of Fairies‚ Oberon. He first appears in Act 2‚ Scene 1 when he and another fairy discuss the disagreement between Oberon and Titania are having. The fairy gives us some indication of Puck’s character as she describes how Puck "frights the maidens of the villagery" and "Misleading the night wanderers" (Act 2.1‚ line 35). When Titania refuses to give up the boy servant that Oberon wants‚ he comes up with a plan to steal the child‚ and enlists Puck’s help to do so. Oberon is fully
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bunch of wannabe actors. Clever dialogue and witty banter Shakespeare reserves some of the best dialogue for his warring lovers‚ especially Oberon and Titania‚ and even the "rude mechanicals" show clever banter. Deception and disguise Hermia and Lysander try to sneak away from Athens to run away together‚ behind Egeus’s back. Also‚ Titania and the young lovers have no idea they’ve been drugged by Oberon and his magic love juice. Mistaken identity In most of Shakespeare’s other comedies
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king of fairies‚ is mad at his mistress‚ Titania because she wants to adopt a boy from another land and will not let him go‚ so he tells his servant‚ Puck to go and sprinkle a potion on her eyelids that will make her fall in love with the next thing she sees‚ which Oberon hopes is a monster. Unfortunately‚ when Lysander and Hermia plan to escape‚ Hermia and Lysander decide to sleep on the same bank as Titania is on. Although Oberon puts the potion on Titania‚ Puck accidentally puts it on Lysander
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